Plastic Awareness Info

The goal of this page is to provide you with various resources that will help you find more information about the issue of Plastic Pollution. We hope you like our links and that you will let us know what else we can do to help. If you are interested in learning more about our Plastic and Recycling Awareness Curriculum for elementary schools, please visit the tab marked Educational Program.

Plastic Waste in Kuta beach in Bali: At least 270,000 people die every year die from respiratory diseases related to burnt waste, while 8m tonnes of plastic enters the ocean each year, because waste is not properly processed on land. Photograph: Made Nagi/EPA Read the full article:

The first video is about the great new book, “Life Without Plastic” and the second is all about straws: Do You Really Need A Straw:

Tapped movie trailer:

Organic Origami: How to make a liner for your kitchen container by Ottawa Green Bin

Check out this great video about plastic pollution and its effects on our environment: “This is what happens when plastic is thrown into the ocean” by the folks at Tech Insider One Plastic Beach. This short documentary profiles artists Richard Lang and Judith Selby Lang, who have been collecting plastic debris off of a beach in Northern California for over a decade. They turn what they find into art, while raising a deeper concern with the problem of pollution in our seas: